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Benedict XVI to Priests: Use New Technologies to Evangelize! [UPDATED]
From Reuters:
Continue readingVATICAN CITY - For God's sake, blog! Pope Benedict told priests on Saturday, saying they must learn to use new forms of communication to spread the gospel message.
In his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Communications, the pope, who is 82 and known not to love computers or the Internet, acknowledged priests must make the most of the "rich menu of options" offered by new technology
"Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources — images,...
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PDS/Joomla
Our parish uses the (now, online/OnDemand) Parish Data System (PDS) software, including all facility and event scheduling. We are also about to roll out a new Joomla-based website.
Does anyone have a good method for calendar export from PDS?
The best I've found (with the documentation I've had so far) for exporting from PDS is HTML output. I'd rather not have to write a script to use that output to create something a bit more portable (e.g. icalendar).
Thanks.
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Wingdings type font with a certain character
Does anyone know where I can find a "gavel" type character in a free font somewhere? I'm trying to put together a small cheat-sheet for my Knights of Columbus council, and want to have gavel characters to indicate how many times the gavel is knocked.
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Priests on facebook
Article on CNS about priests using Facebook. Do we want to list them here? http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/priests-on-facebook/
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Liturgical Library
I've been thinking of writing an opensource library that calculates the liturgical calendar. For those of you who are unaware, there is already something out there that calculates one liturgical calendar, Romcal. However, there are many regional variations in the liturgical calendar along with varying solemnities, the Orthodox using the Julian calendar, etc. I was thinking of writing something that could calculate many different calendars and that could be easily customized by the end user for any specific nuances a given region might have.
What are peoples' opinions on...
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"Why Churches Should Not Market" (by Matt Farina)
An interesting read about the trend of 'marketing' by many Churches (especially those with a bit of fundage, me thinks): Why Churches Should Not Market.
Churches put a lot of time and thought into marketing themselves. The church marketing community has grown so large and vast the are even sites that parody what churches do. Some churches have marketing people on staff. And, every year millions and millions of dollars are invested in church marketing.
Yet, I submit that churches should do no marketing. Am I crazy?My take?...
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Social Media: What to do if your Identity/Brand is Stolen
There is no way to absolutely prevent people from using your organizational names, logos, branding, identity, and other copyrighted materials on social network sites (besides creating groups on every social network under every conceivable organization name, which is impractical).
The best way to combat infringements is to:- First, kindly ask the person who made the group to take it down.
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Second, ask the social network (most of the big ones have this) to take down the group/account, or at least restrict access, by filing a copyright/infringement claim.
Facebook: Copyright Infringement...